Describe your participant groups

On this page you can think about the groups of people you will be asking to share stories with you. By thinking carefully about your participant groups now, you can lay the ground for making solid decisions later in the project.

Think about groups of people whose stories you need to hear in your project. If your project is simple, you might have only one group. If so, you can describe that group here. However, you might need to hear from multiple groups of people in your project. For example:

• Some people might have more authority or power than others. People in one group might defer to the other, so you need to keep them separate to they can all speak freely.
• Maybe you will have two groups that don't agree. Maybe people won't want to speak in the presence of the other group.
• Maybe your groups just have different backgrounds. Maybe they won't feel comfortable opening up to each other.

In any of those cases, create a separate description of each participant group you expect to hear from.

The descriptions you enter here (along with your description of resources) will create the recommendations you see on these pages:

• story collection venues
• story eliciting questions
• questions about stories
• questions about participants
• story collection sessions
• sensemaking sessions

If you don't want to use NarraFirma's recommendation system, you can skip this page.